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In handy size phíat fitted with glass applicator.
$1.00
Remedy
A non-staining preparation com. pounded according to the approved and recent formula of an eminent authority on tropical skin diseases.
Immediately relieves all
--irritation,
• Removes infected tissue.
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EIGHT LONDON DANCE SUCCESSES FROM THE "H.M.V.” AUGUST RELEASE.
BD-176
BD-172 Anything Goes (from "Anything Gocs"!—F.T.
Hylton's Orchestra You're the Top--Foxtrot, (from "Anything Goes")
Hylton's Orchestra, I'll take the South-Foxtrot
Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra Rehearsing a Lullaby-Waltz
Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra. BD-177 Lonely Little Dancer-Tango Fox Trot
Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra. Way back Homo-Fox Trot
Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra.
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BD-178 My heart jumped over the Moon-Fox Trot
BD-179
BD-174
Jackson's Orchestra. Little Golden Locket-Fox Trot jackson's Orchestra. On the Prom, Prom, Promenade-One Step
Jackson's Orchestra, I Love you Gipsy-Fox Trot ·Jackson's Orchestra, On the Good Ship Lollipop (Film "Bright Eyes")
Rudy Vallee's Or. I've got a Note-Fox Trot
New Mayfair Dance Orchestra BD-160 Me and the Old Folks-Fox Trot
New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. On Venetian Waters-Fox Trot
New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Mr. Bluebird-Fox Trot New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, Jolly good company by the Sea-Six Eight
New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Lots of other interesting records in the new consignment.
BD-181
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TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1935,
NOTES OF THE DAY
A PANTRY PARADOX
courke,
BRITISH CHALLENGE
ON ATLANTIC
By SIR GEORGE THURSTON
BULLS AND INNERS
ជ ជ
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From the Office Butts
According to a local gossip writer "Jodhpurs" are becoming. Some
THE coming year should nee put | fuel than the Queen Mary for the of aur Hongkong lovelles certainly
alry
the Queen Mary and Normandie (propellers. for the Blue Riband of the At-
lantie. It is probably news to the general public that the propelling installations in these ships are fundamentally different. In fact,
It is said that one in every two
From information published from time to time and reasonable dedué-Government
ons as to certain features of these matshed. The other can't swim!
servants
vessels, it may help in the compari- son if some mention is made of the varying dimensions and parti-
culars.
The overall length of the Queen Mary is 1.018ft, and that of the Normandie 1.029f1. The deep dis
Consistency is n jewel, says the proverb. What, then, must be said. of a substance that steams when exposed to the air, freezes things solid when you put them into the proper sort of container with it, registers a temperature of 109 degrees below zero, but feels too hot to hold? No jewel for con- sistency, this. But a gold mine, nevertheless-dry ice. In the last decade this pantry politician-that is to say, it seems always to be promising one thing and doing an- ather--has built up a new Ameri- different are the ships in this can industry. It has, of,
vital particular that a comparison confined its lobbying to keeping ice is at once instructive and produc- cream bard in back hallways until | Live. A great deal of secrecy is dinner time. Yet it has extended being observed by both parties its Influence even into the game of
power is really gulf, where, us a ball-centre, it puts regarding what such liveliness into the play, such provided for in these ships, so that placement of the Queen Mary la length into the drive, na to lead to for the moment only an approxima-61,000 tons and that of the Nor- the prediction that some players tion to the actual powers can be who have given the game up for. the ninth or tenth time will take given here. The knowledge, how. it up yet again. The number of ever, is sufficient for our purpose. sen already discovered for this In the Queen Mary the steam will
160,000-10,000 un ench shaft. product is really amazing. In be supplied to turbines which fact, it appears that only one has drive the propeller shafts through The propellers of the Queen Mary been overlooked. That is its em
single-reduction gearing. In there four, with 180 revolutions per Normandle the steam is supplied minute, the weight of each propel- to-turbo-alternators which generate er being 35 tons. Those of the electricity. which
is supplied to Normandie are also four, running
238 to 248 revolutions special synchronous motors driving at
minute, the weight of each pro- Įthe propeller shafts,
ipeller being 2311⁄2 tons.
ployment as an aid to instructors in e skating. For years these tenchers have been puzzled by the inclination nay, propensity ----of neophytes to sit, roll, or otherwise | recline luxuriously on the surface of the frozen rink instead of keep- ing on their feet. If, as the in- structors seem to believe, the tou frequently horizontal positions of would-be fee skaters are due to some prenliar comfort to be derived Rel--Frobenty
postures, the remedy may be dry ice. At least it would make it hot for the Warner's who cons tinued to "lie down on the job."
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE and SHOWROOM
Phone 27778-2-
The
Stubbs
Thongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, AUG. 17, 1935,
RECONSTRUCTION
mandie 68,500 tons. The
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If silver lets you down, Never mind;
OWNS 13.
If you're lone, and cooked and
brown,
Never mind.
If they say it's going up.
They may just be talking gup, Trying hard to sell a pup;
Never mind. klinfi
horse power of the Queen Mary is
200,000—that is, 50,000 on each
shaft; and that of the Normandlo
per
As regards freedom from nine In selecting the type of propel, and vibration, there is probably ling machinery the designer little to choose between the two faced with the knowledge that for methods, for gearing can now be an efficient turbine the revolutions made to run silently at very high Zust be high, of the order of 2,000, Widleness 92-10 per cent being to 3,000 per minute, and to obtain jelaimest for modern tears. the greatest efficiency from the pro- peller the revolution; must be low, of the arter of 200 per minute,
The difference in dexibility of The direct turbine drive must be 1
control [etween The turbo-electrie compromise in which some sacrifice and geared turbine drives in prols- is made in both the efficiene fahty also very small. the turbine and the propeller, and I seldom fitted in modern designs, "Boconstruction," a commanding The choice must therefore be minde phrase in early post-War economies, between the single-reditation gear- and lately an important word in turbine, where the energy in American radio and aereen writers
the steam
converted into tainment, is humouring for admis mechanical power by the turbine sin into England. Some Ameri running at high revolutions, and enn radio stations send out news delivered to the propeller training pre-bulletins which are
at reduced revolutions through a forms of potted dramas. A little tlons" of current events in the reduction gear of about 10:1), and while ag a sample of this kind of
HONGKONG AND SILVER
"revonstrie-
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furbo-electric
the mechanfend
system. Bere
# power from
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Beotomy in fuel is aimed for the electric drive at low powers. but this is not of fist importance in Atlantic liners, which operate mainly at speeds approaching the maximum.
Experiments on minded propellers show that, in general, three-bladed Propellers are more efficient than
four-bladed. It is claimed, how-
that four-binded propellers
Of course. It may go up; Never minti;
never
Or the--you
may go down. ' Never mind.
know--It
But for your mental ca30, Disregard those hot "T.T.'s"
And ignore the brokers' pleas-- Never mind!
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We hear of a local golfer who says he'll move heaven and earth to win the Hongkong champicnship. Usually with most golfers It's only the earth.
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Router has been cabling daily bulletins on a coughing racehorse. Kelly
he rough regularly every morning, but nobody wires. Home about it.
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There's a fortune awaiting the man who can breed a cross between double eagle am L homing piston.
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Unusual conditions have vailed in the silver market this week, the to the weakening of the price in London and Bem-British public at a time when the tions, is converted into electrical movement and that in rough water solve our exchange problem. It's
hu་x:; Summary was given the
DICKENS DID IT
turbine, running at high revolu-
of control.
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realt in a more uniform turning
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What about asking Mr. Sorby to Day, later influenced by reports British Broadcouting Corporation Power, at high voltage, in the af
less vibration is experienced with four-bladed than with three-binded.ļ a currentes expert! of the possibility of the Unitest was experimenting with its own internator and then reconverted into
formation service,
propellers. mechanical power by the electr States abandoning its silver American mavazine Jasines weekly A well-known
O ជ motors ruuntur at low revolutions, Neither system holds advantage purchase sehetne. Hongkong, news fikn based upon the "ris
on the propeller shafts.
coker The other
The noise created by Dotchle on the subject of Eagles this week would indicate as practically the sole centre with the aid of the netual people for
constructing" of current events retaining its currency on silver, concerned in them
vibration. The advantages usually claimed
tigst they're feeling party. the urls-electric drive Are Such vilation as reparts said has
ur with sub large astern naturally been
manoeuvring power, sccurred in the Normandie was due keenlystitute actors. This news reel is due to the ability of the motors to watching developments.
to the propellers, and may be con- How to be shown in Britain, and develop full power astern; economy siderably reduced by the new four-trary to general expectations, silver The
The Week's Silver Review: Con- view that
English erities are nt present ure-at reduced speeds by running only Bladed propellers now litted. America would re-ing the British film companies to verse, her silver policy turns make similar news reels themselves, one side of the ship; and flexibility one alternator on two motors on
slumped surreptitiously, seriously shaking shady speculators. out to have been based on, un-
The reliability of the geared tur-Bombay offtake being negligible. Polynesia bought heavily. the substantial grounds, since, al-,
bine drive for propelling machinery Bullion remained where it was, of large power, In vessels running despite position previously fore- though there is no indication of
The turbo-electric drive involves for long periods, near maximum cast. Outlook: the United States buying at
greater capital and maintenance; speed has been proved, while the same as it might have been before Much about the But it is recognised that this is feasts, and the weight, space and reliability of fancy prices created by specula-
the turbo-electric it was otherwise. Inge question, Siure tors, it seems clear that there is "reconstructions" are carried out driving
these fuel consumption required for equal drive for this work obtains its first no intention of total withdrawal under the light of editorial inter, greater than for the geared tur-
power are all definitely important lest in the Normandie, = from the world markets. All people concerned, and sometimes tion, based on the foregoing, with Queen Mary, the greater efficiency the ascendant, secasionally soaring
pretation, sometimes with the ren! bine. The increased Fuel consump larger
Taking into consideration the Notwithstanding the above, that appears to be happening with artors, they inevitably became the electric drive will be anything of the geared turbine drive, and to dizzy heights, which, with the shaft horse-power of the Double Eagles were seen to be in is that the U. S. Treasury, in
mingling of fact and fiction between 6 per cent, and 10 per the possibly much smaller displace.prevailing fog, prevented a clear pursuit of its plans to
Such minglings are not, of course, rent. RC-
uncommon, for authors often use cumulate silver storks in a pro-invidents in their own lives to make
ment tonnage on the voyage, also view of the market movement. The fliciencies of the holler the fact that numerous model tank portion of one-quarter of its parts of novels, as Dickens did in plants in the two ships should be trinks have been made in order to
"David gold holdings, is buying at the
Copperfield," However, about equal.
arrive at the most suitable form they have invariably been regarded | most advantageous level. Con-hitherto
of the hull, there is no doubt that
We understand that a local Scots It therefore follows that, other the Queen Mary should develop a nudist. providing as fiction. At present things being equal, the Normandiespeed in excess of that of the Nor-suitalile sporran partner.
IT412 is contemplating turning sequently, when speculators equally inarinative reconstructions will require not less than & permandie. She
he can find a were forced to sell in order to dialogue are seriously passed cent. more boiler power and will secure for Britain the Blue Riband shouki, in fact,
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to
a
uff as biography r history; and burn not less than 6 per cent, mure of the Allantie, the kind of news reel in question regeneried as "lm journalism."
or "re.
eavag their commitments on Tuesday, America stepped in and purchased the huge quanti-it may be, and doubtless often is. a wise and balanced editorial pito- ty of twenty-five million ounces. duetion. But
there is This action was a sufficient feeling in England that news reeds strong answer to the rumoured inten-should be real news; and that the tion of censing purchases al-
very greatest care should be taken to see that what may be nccepted together.
There are admittedly by the public as objective fact is aspects of the American silver objective fact, and nothing more; policy which it is dificult
that what is recollected follow, but credit must be given fined from what is an actual, eur- constructed" should be sharply de- to the Treasury experts and rent record. their advisers for knowing what they are doing, and why. The made unusually difficult owing point to be borne in mind is that to uncertainty regarding Amer- no time-limit has been set toien's future silver policy and the accumulation of the buge China's currency plans. Until quantity of silver which the there is some 'prospect of per- United States desires to secure,manency in these policies. and it is therefore reasonable to Hongkong must walk warily in suppose, unless the silverites the matter of stabilisation. A can impose their will on the false step in the stabilisation Administration and provided rate might work incalculable the Silver Purchase Act remains injury to the Colony. Were on the statute book-that thera China to link up definitely with will be no nmarked variation in he sterling bloc, the task would the immediate future from the be rendered somewhat casier policy of buying only when the and less liable to cause us harm, price happens to be suitable. If but at the moment there is no that is the line followed, big indication that China intends to fluctuations in the price would change the basis of her cur appear to be unlikely. So far rency. In the circumstances. as Hongkong is concerned, its therefore, desirable as stabilisa- position is not an enviable one. tion would be, there There a growing feeling in little that Hongkong can do favour of stabilisation of the but await developments in the local dollar, but such a step is foutside world.
seems
"Oh, I guess it's all right if he wants to mow his own fawn, but I wish he wouldn't stop and talk with the neighbour's hired man,"
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Although competitors in Photographic Competition cannot be positive that they will all win prizes, the answer is doubtless in the negative!
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It is said that Peak residents acquire a superiority complex. Judging from the congestion when three sit together on a Peak Tram Feat. we should
Bay that "posteriority" was the more np. propriate word.
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"Eat ice-cream every day," says advertisement. Sundnes in- cluded!
0- The knock in the car is too fre- quently caused by the pedestrian.
According to a Society journal, already this has been a record year for broken engagements. Nineteen Birty five.
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A woman was recently awarded heavy compensation for loss of a Hittle finger. Presumably it was the one she twisted her husband around.
There's nothing like hiking to make the skin glow, says a doctor. Quite right; it gives you a hike colour!
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Every year in Leap Year for the parachutist.